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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 7 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
he ground at Washington, leaving my troops with the Constitution at Fortress Monroe. But I took care to have them disembark from the vessel and put them on land. There was but one ear in Washington that was always open to me, the President's. He was then embarrassed, as I happened to know, from the fact that he could not get McClellan to move. Even the President himself was doubtful about the number of troops on the other side of the river. It so happened that I was a warm friend of Senator Wade, who was chairman of the Committee on the Conduct of the War. He was very anxious to have a movement, and was chafing under the inactivity very much. He asked me my opinion about the rebel force opposite Washington. He summoned me before the War Committee, and I had to give it under oath. Not only that, but I was made to give my reasons for the opinion, and I happened to have some to give. They were dated the 12th day of February, 1862, and appear in the report of the Committee on the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
h. General Grant, General Weitzel, and Admiral Porter were fully examined by the committee. There were upon the committee members of both political parties, and the result of the investigation was a unanimous report through their chairman, Hon. Ben F. Wade, which closed with the following words:-- In conclusion, your committee would say, from all the testimony before them, that the determination of General Butler not to assault the fort seems to have been fully justified by all the facts and circumstances then known or afterwards ascertained. Respectfully submitted, B. F. Wade, Chairman. I had hoped that this report would justify my action in saving the lives of my men without any detriment to the public service, but, unfortunately, so far as I know, it was never published in any of the newspapers which tried me before the country; and whenever any malicious scoundrel wants to make a fling at me and my military conduct, he always says: How about Fort Fisher? I will h
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
he should be tried. His acts of treason had all been committed in the Southern States and by the Constitution he must be tried, if tried by a civil court, by a jury of the vicinage of those acts. There certainly could not be a jury got in those States fairly impanelled, some of whom would not have been of his political faith, and interference with the selection of the jury by the prosecutor or otherwise was of all things the most to be condemned. Mr. Johnson, on the recommendation of Senator Wade, who at the first of his administration was his warmest supporter, but when Johnson changed became one of his bitterest foes, sent for me as a lawyer to consult with him on this question. We talked over the difficulties of this position and the effect. As it would not do to try Mr. Davis by a negro jury in Virginia, and as such a trial, continuing perhaps at great length and occupying the public mind, might cause great bitterness of feeling especially in the South, he asked me if I coul